Whether you’re already retired or not, you probably know two types of retirees. Some of them have never had so much fun. They embrace the freedom of their senior years with both hands. Their days are so full of meaningful activities that they joke “I don’t know how I...
A husband-and-wife team of real estate brokers in Virginia have been charged with stealing $300,000 through a scheme that allowed them to collect advances on commissions for sales that hadn’t gone through or were simply made up. Federal prosecutors say Jessee Allen Deloach, 40, and his wife Natasha Ashley...
Tax-loss selling will disrupt stock markets between now and the end of the year — and shrewd buyers can profit from the chaos. The cause of this turmoil is year-end tax-loss selling. This occurs when an investor sells a stock at loss in order to offset capital gains realized...
Radiant is moving forward with plans to bring small nuclear reactors — also known as “micro reactors” — to market. The shipping-container-sized units are capable of operating independently from the electric grid to supply highly resilient power for critical loads under normal and emergency conditions. The El...
Barron's Crypto: 21st Century Paradigm Shift Readers weigh in on cryptocurrencies, metaverse investing, China’s crackdown on tech and education, utility stocks versus U.S. Treasuries, and Charles R. Dreifus’ opinion on why the Fed isn’t tightening Oct. 29, 2021 at 9:12 p.m. ET This article was originally...
Some hedge funds are likely to be facing substantial losses as the result of a steady narrowing in the differential between yields for long-dated U.S. government debt and shorter-dated ones, traders said on Friday. Concerns about possible losses come as global yield curves have been flattening, with short-term...
Billionaire Charlie Munger says he’s unfazed by criticism of a University of California, Santa Barbara, residence hall partially funded by his $200 million donation and stands by his vision for the project — where 94% of the student rooms won’t have windows. “I think the building will be a...
The Value Gap is a MarketWatch Q&A series with business leaders, academics, authors, policymakers and activists on reducing racial and social inequalities. As author Evan Moore tweeted this fall: It’s highly unlikely that a Black man from 71st and Luella in Chicago and a South Asian woman from New Jersey would...
Dear Quentin, I have been working remotely part-time as an independent contractor (aka Form 1099) for a friend for four years, doing bookkeeping and admin work. When I started, she told me how much she pays and I was happy with the rate since it is more than I...
Microsoft Corp. eclipsed Apple Inc. as the most valuable U.S. company for the first time in nearly 16 months after the smartphone giant reported a rare sales miss in the face of supply constraints. Apple shares AAPL, -1.82% ended Friday’s session down 1.8%, implying a valuation of $2.458...
